The Benefits of High Cholesterol

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By Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD

 

People with high cholesterol live the longest. This statement seems so

incredible that it takes a long time to clear one´s brainwashed mind

to fully understand its importance. Yet the fact that people with high

cholesterol live the longest emerges clearly from many scientific

papers. Consider the finding of Dr. Harlan Krumholz of the Department

of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University, who reported in 1994

that old people with low cholesterol died twice as often from a heart

attack as did old people with a high cholesterol.1 Supporters of the

cholesterol campaign consistently ignore his observation, or consider

it as a rare exception, produced by chance among a huge number of

studies finding the opposite.

 

But it is not an exception; there are now a large number of findings

that contradict the lipid hypothesis. To be more specific, most

studies of old people have shown that high cholesterol is not a risk

factor for coronary heart disease. This was the result of my search in

the Medline database for studies addressing that question.2 Eleven

studies of old people came up with that result, and a further seven

studies found that high cholesterol did not predict all-cause

mortality either.

 

Full article :

 

http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/benefits_cholest.html

 

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